As part of our iPad App March Madness, I will be spotlighting each of the losing apps as they get eliminated throughout the month of March with a “What a Loser” post here on my blog. I’ll try to give some screenshots, some links to instructional ideas for the app, and maybe a link to student projects if we have some for the losing app. During this second week of March there will be eight “losers” featured.

Our first featured March Madness “Loser” is Google Earth.

Google Earth in the App Store: (Price: Free)
Click to “buy” Google Earth for your iPad.

Outside links you might find useful:
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=54477
YouTube Tutorial on Using the Google Earth Apps

Because Google Earth is a Google product, if you have a GMail account, you actually have an account to save Google Earth projects at http://www.google.com/earth/ The app allows you to use Google Earth on an iPad and if you have projects saved, access them as well. Pinch and zoom features when the iPad is connected to the Internet allow you to zoom in on a location. Play with various overlays to look at things like roads, buildings, and map boarders. Rotate the earth to change views. Be sure to look at the link above to the LiveBinder resource with lots of instructional ideas for using Google Earth.